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# executioner

«executioner» in Mova's school dictionary: **to put a criminal to death, as a punishment ordered by a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural executioners)

### meaning for a pupil

A person whose job is to put a criminal to death, as a punishment ordered by a court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/executioner/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, the man who carries out a death sentence, often feared and hooded; in some stories the executioner is tricked or sent away

### examples

- The executioner raised his axe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/executioner/#x1)
- The king sent for the executioner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/executioner/#x2)
- In the story, the executioner refused to harm the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/executioner/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [The executioner's argument: you can't cut off a head unless there is a body to cut it off from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «executioner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/executioner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.